After 2 years, the Kremlin claims Putin is ready to discuss the downing of MH17 with Malaysian prime minister

An armed man looks at charred debris at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, July 20, 2014. Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and had them loaded Sunday onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said.

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Russian
President Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss the issue of the
downing of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine in 2014 with visiting
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak this week, Kremlin aide Yury
Ushakov said on Tuesday.

"Should Malaysian representatives wish to discuss the topic of
the Boeing, we certainly will also be ready to discuss it,"
Ushakov said. Razak will attend an ASEAN summit in Russia's Black
Sea resort of Sochi.

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On July 17, 2014, a Boeing 777 Malaysian
airliner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was
shot down over eastern Ukraine near Donetsk, a region occupied by
pro-Russian militants.

RTLNieuws said it had the shrapnel tested by international
forensic experts, including defense analyst IHS Jane's in London,
who said it matched the explosive charge of a Buk a Russian-made
anti-aircraft missile system.

Buk missiles are launched from trucks to
engage planes and helicopters within 13
miles off the ground. A few other militaries currently use
the Soviet-style Buk system including Syria,
North
Korea, and China.

The downing of the plane was a turning point in the
conflict in Ukraine, which pits the separatists against Kiev's
forces.

Kiev and its Western supporters blamed the rebels for the
incident and it stiffened the resolve of Western governments to
impose sanctions against both leading separatists and
Moscow.